TY - JOUR AU - Eaton, Peggy S. AU - Freuder, Eugene C. AU - Wallace, Richard J. PY - 1998/06/15 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Constraints and Agents: Confronting Ignorance JF - AI Magazine JA - AIMag VL - 19 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.1609/aimag.v19i2.1368 UR - https://ojs.aaai.org/aimagazine/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/1368 SP - 51 AB - Research on constraints and agents is emerging at the intersection of the communities studying constraint computation and software agents. Constraint- based reasoning systems can be enhanced by using agents with multiple problem-solving approaches or diverse problem representations. The constraint computation paradigm can be used to model agent consultation, cooperation, and competition. An interesting theme in agent interaction, which is studied here in constraint-based terms, is confronting ignorance: the agent's own ignorance or its ignorance of other agents. ER -